Gamingzone Entertainment is an entertainment company in esports and gaming focused on creating narrative and entertaining original esports content. The founders have a background from TV4, MTG and Endemol Shine and have been involved in productions of Big Brother, Idol, Survivor and more. The management team has more than 100 years of experience from the international media and entertainment industry. Based on our experience from the TV industry we create entertainment formats for the esports and gaming fans.
Karl Mikael Cakste
CEO
Karl Mikael has extensive experience from the media, entertainment and hospitality industries. He has held senior executive positions in industry leaders such as MTG and Nordic Choice Hospitality Group. He has also been an entrepreneur in start-ups and growth companies both internationally and in Scandinavia.
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Martin Lang
CFO
Martin has extensive experience from online businesses and he has spent the last 10 years holding various CFO and COO positions within the online gaming industry. His CV includes both start-ups and larger organisations, local as well as international ones, e.g. the Bonnier Group.
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Robert Jönsson
Chief Creative Officer
His 20 years of TV-experience includes a great number of productions for different territories and broadcasters worldwide. Since 2000 he has been working as a Producer/Executive Producer for formats like Idol, Strictly Come Dancing, Big Brother, The Money Drop, Killer Karaoke and Paradise Hotel just to mention a few. During 2008-2009 Robert was based in London an in charge of developing international formats for Zodiak Media Group. In 2010 he took the role as Chief Creative Officer for Endemol Sweden.
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Ola Heffler
Chief Monetizing Officer
Ola is a multiple start up entrepreneur who have been in the media and digital sales business for 20 years. Former MD for DoubleClick (acquired by Google) and been senior advisor in sales, sponsoring and business development for several of Scandinavia’s major media groups including MTG, Egmont and Bonnier.
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Gamingzone Entertainment AB was founded in December 2016. The current owners are the founders (Per Bergström, Karl Mikael Cakste, Ola Heffler, Fredrik Ivansson and Robert Jönsson) and a small group of hand-picked business people adding money, know-how, experience and network to the venture.
If you are interested in becoming part of our journey as an investor, please contact CEO Karl Mikael Cakste (kmc@gze.global)
for more information.